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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s

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1984
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January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state. Bell System in the United States is broken up, January 5 – President Ronald Reagan nominates Elizabeth Dole as U. S. Secretary of Transportation. January 7 – Brunei becomes the member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. January 10 The United States and the Vatican restore full diplomatic relations, the Victoria Agreement is signed–institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. January 18 – The Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion at Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan, January 22 – The national release of the iconic 1984 advertisement January 24 – Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States. February 1 – Medicare comes into effect in Australia, february 3 Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce historys first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. STS-41-B, Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission, february 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. February 8–19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, february 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 26 – The United States Marine Corps pulls out of Beirut, february 29 – Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, announces his retirement. March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using weapons, the United Nations condemns their use on March 30. March 6 – A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry, March 14 – Sinn Féins Gerry Adams and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force. March 16 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization and later dies in captivity. March 22 – Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the school children, March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistans history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh. March 25 Pope John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Fátima, the Institute of the Incarnate Word is founded under Fr. April 1 – Death of Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father, april 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11. April 4 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan calls for a ban on chemical weapons. April 9 – The 56th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, terms of Endearment wins Best Picture and 4 other Academy Awards. April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage, Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages

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2 Minutes to Midnight
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2 Minutes to Midnight is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, featured on their fifth studio album, Powerslave. It was released as the tenth single, and first from the album on 6 August 1984 and rose to number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. A protest song about war,2 Minutes to Midnight was written by Adrian Smith. The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight, when the United States, according to Dickinson, the song critically addresses the romance of war in general rather than the Cold War in particular. The first B-side is a cover of British progressive rock band Becketts Rainbows Gold, the song was written by Terry Slesser and Kenny Mountain, respectively the bands vocalist and guitarist. On the original release, it is titled A Rainbows Gold, according to Nicko McBrain, commenting on the single in Listen With Nicko Part VI, the members of Iron Maiden were friends with members of Beckett. The bands manager, Rod Smallwood, commented this version, This was originally done by a band called Beckett who the band liked a lot, Adrian used to do a cover of another of their songs Rainclouds in his band Evil Ways. Beckett were from Newcastle and had a singer called Terry Wilson Slesser. During the concert, Harris bass gear broke down, so he asked the nearest roadie to tell McBrain to extend the solo. The crew member was unable to communicate the message effectively, which unfortunately distracted McBrain and had a impact on his solo. Vocalist Bruce Dickinson states that he found the argument so amusing that he decided to record it with a concealed tape recorder. 7 single 12 single Production credits are adapted from the 7-inch vinyl and it appears as a playable track in 2009 music video game Guitar Hero 5, but is heavily censored. It is downloadable content for Rock Band console games, two Minutes to Midnight was the title given to the penultimate episode in the fifth season of Supernatural. List of anti-war songs Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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80's Romance
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80s Romance is a song by English new wave/pop band The Belle Stars. It is their eleventh overall, and the bands final single as a seven-piece. 80s Romance was overall the bands least successful single to chart, 80s Romance is a Torch song that conveys the singer and the lover not seeing each other like lovers should. The singer claims her heart is cold and this possibly means that the singer thinks her love has been denied by her lover, even though some other lyrics in the song conflict with that message. The music video for the shows the band setting their stage up for the music video. Jennie Matthias spins around, showing off her outfit, while Miranda Joyce is shown wearing a wig of Sarah-Jane Owens hairstyle, towards the end of the video, the band is shown attempting to run through a glass wall. Sarah-Jane Owen is the first person to break through the wall, the rest of the music video shows the band doing their dance routine for the chorus that is played throughout earlier in the video. Romance-lyrics-the-belle-stars. html Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Belle Stars, The - 80s Romance

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88 Lines About 44 Women
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88 Lines About 44 Women is the name of a single by the new wave band The Nails. Recorded for their 1981 EP Hotel for Women, the song was re-recorded and released on the bands 1984 album Mood Swing, along with the track Let It All Hang Out,88 Lines About 44 Women peaked at number forty-six on the US dance chart in March 1985. Marc Campbell and David Kaufman of The Nails wrote 88 Lines About 44 Women in a Manhattan loft, the rhythm track on the song was a preprogrammed track on Kaufmans Casio keyboard. The lyrics, written by Campbell, describe 44 different girls, their habits, Campbell wrote the lyrics to the song and has explained that ome of the women are real, some are made up. Much of the song was inspired by women the group had encountered while moving from Boulder and he wrote the full lyrics in two hours on a manual typewriter, and the band recorded it the next day. The Nails never produced a video for 88 Lines About 44 Women. The song was released in 1981 as side 1 of the EP, Hotel for Women. The earlier version contained minimal production, a machine, and a single droning synthesizer. Some copies of the 7 of original version included an X-rated version in addition to the radio edit, both 88 Lines and its B-side were digitally remastered and appear on the extended Hotel for Women CD, released in November 2009. The song has received positive critical reaction, heather Phares, writing for AllMusic, praised the songs deadpan delivery, and calling the song a portrait of the counterculture in the late 70s and early 80s. The song was included in the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, on the list of 10,001 Songs You Must Download Before You Die. The song has been included on compilations, including Just Cant Get Enough, New Wave Hits of the 80s, Richard Blades Flashback Favorites. The song was used in a 1998 TV commercial for Mazda. Lead singer Marc Campbell stated that the money the group ever made with the song was from commercials. In 1997, parody musician The great Luke Ski recorded a parody entitled 88 Lines About 44 Simpsons, in 1999, David Nielsen of The Brunching Shuttlecocks recorded a parody entitled 88 Lines About 42 Presidents about the Presidents of the United States through Bill Clinton

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99 Luftballons
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99 Luftballons is an anti-war protest song by the German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled 99 Red Balloons, with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was released on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe. The English version is not a translation of the German original. While at a June 1982 concert by the Rolling Stones in West Berlin, as he watched them move toward the horizon, he noticed them shifting and changing shapes, where they looked like strange spacecraft. He thought about what might happen if they floated over the Berlin Wall to the Soviet sector, a direct translation of the title is sometimes given as Ninety-Nine Air Balloons, but the song became known in English as Ninety-Nine Red Balloons. Neunundneunzig has one more than ninety-nine, so the last syllable and Luft are blended in the English translation. The lyrics of the original German version tell a story,99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, finding nothing but childs balloons, the pilots decide to put on a show and shoot them down. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the war ministers on each side bang the drums of conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a 99-year war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons, at the end, the singer walks through the devastated ruins and lets loose a balloon, watching it fly away. The promotional video was shot in a Dutch military training camp, towards the end of the video, the band are seen taking cover and abandoning the stage which was unplanned and genuine since they believed the explosive blasts were getting out of control. From the outset Nena and other members of the band expressed disapproval for the English version of the song,99 Red Balloons, in March 1984, the bands keyboardist and song co-writer Uwe Fahrenkrog Petersen said, We made a mistake there. I think the song loses something in translation and even sounds silly, there have been two re-recordings of the original German version of the song which have been released by Nena, a modern version in 2002 which was included on Nena feat. Nena and a version in 2009, which included some verses in French. Live recordings of the song are included on all six of Nenas live albums and it was certified Gold by the RIAA. The later-released English translation,99 Red Balloons, topped the charts in the UK, Canada, vH1 Classic, an American cable television station, ran a charity event for Hurricane Katrina relief in 2006. Viewers who made donations were allowed to choose which music videos the station would play, one viewer donated $35,000 for the right to program an entire hour and requested continuous play of 99 Luftballons and 99 Red Balloons videos. The station broadcast the videos as requested from 2,00 to 3,00 pm EST on 26 March 2006, in his 2010 book Music, What Happened. Critic and musician Scott Miller declared that the song one of the best hooks of the eighties

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Aces High (song)
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Aces High is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, written by the bands bassist Steve Harris. It is Iron Maidens eleventh single release and the second from their studio album. The first B-side is a cover of Nektars King of Twilight and their cover is actually a medley of the songs Crying in the Dark and King of Twilight, the last two songs on the album. The Japanese 12 was mixed with the B-side covers from The Trooper &2 Minutes To Midnight singles, Aces High is one of Iron Maidens most popular songs, and has been covered numerous times. It is featured in the video game Madden NFL10, the MTV show Nitro Circus, colin McKay used the song on his part of the skate video Plan B Questionable. It can also be found in the soundtrack of the game Carmageddon II, Aces High is frequently used as the opening song for Iron Maiden concerts. Churchills speech was included at the beginning of the songs music video. In a 2014 interview with Q magazine, Gerard Way said that the version of Aces High off the Live After Death album was the song that first made interested in performing live. 7 single 12 single Japanese and Brazilian 12 single Production credits are adapted from the 7 inch vinyl and this one turned out really intense, and was easily one of the better songs on a really terrible collection of Iron Maiden cover versions. It was covered in 2005 by Jeff Scott Soto, Nuno Bettencourt, Billy Sheehan and it was covered in 2005 by Scott Lavender on the album The Piano Tribute to Iron Maiden. It was covered in 2006 by Concord Dawn on the album Chaos by Design and it was covered in 2006 by The Iron Maidens on the album The Iron Maidens It was covered in 2008 by Children of Bodom on the album Skeletons in the Closet. It was covered in 2011 by Reinxeed on the album 1912 It was covered in 2013 by Thomas Zwijsen on the album Nylon Maiden Aces High - original video on Youtube

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Adult Education (song)
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Adult Education is a song by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, released as a single on February 18,1984. The song is featured on the second compilation album Rock n Soul Part 1. It was one of two new tracks that were recorded specifically for the release and hit number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100. This song was featured in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V, the song centers on the plight of a teenage girl in high school. Her girlfriends only care about what she wears and the narrator assures her theres life after high school, the lyrics suggest she is wiser than her years and, in fact, is receiving an education to the behavior of adults in high school. The music video to Adult Education, directed by Tim Pope, as Hall & Oates and their band sing, dance and play with modified instruments and ceremonial objects, a middle-aged man in a baseball cap organizes and wields several idols, while chanting. The girl removes the sheet from her head and part of her body, eventually, both teenagers are placed on stone slabs, the boy acts terrified and appears to be restrained, while the girl lies motionless, her body draped in the white sheet. The final shots of the video are of hieroglyphs and ceremonial items scattered around the structure, Hall later criticized the video in the book I Want My MTV, The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. Videos began to attract wannabe Cecil B, demilles, directors who had almost unlimited budgets and did whatever they felt like. Adult Education is a perfect example and we brought in a director I didnt know, who was newly hot. He didnt have a clue what to do with the song

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Agadoo
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Agadoo is a novelty song recorded by the band Black Lace in 1984. Agadoo peaked at two in the UK Singles Chart, and spent 30 weeks in the top 75. It went on to become the eighth best-selling single of 1984 in the UK, in a survey for dotmusic in 2000, respondents voted Agadoo as the fourth most annoying song of all time. The panel also described it as magnificently dreadful, the songs origins date back to 1971, when Michel Delancray and Mya Symille recorded it as Agadou in French. It had been based on a tune that had apparently come from Morocco. Club Med used it as their song from 1974. It was covered by artists and groups, including Patrick Zabé in 1975. The Black Lace group was made up during its heyday by the duo of performers Dene Michael and this was verified on BBC Radio Derby in 2006. Black Laces version of the song was produced by Neil Ferguson at his Woodlands studio under the direction of John Wagstaff, in the UK Singles Chart, Agadoo debuted at number 86 on 20 May 1984. The song didnt enter the top 40 until the end of July, in its fourth week in the top 40, Agadoo reached number 2, with George Michaels Careless Whisper holding it off the top spot. By early November, the song was still in the top 40, by 13 January 1985, its last appearance in the chart, Agadoo had spent 35 weeks in the top 100. It was revealed to be the eighth best-selling single of 1984 around that time, fourteen years after its original release, the song was remixed and re-released. It re-entered the top 100 at number 64 on 16 August 1998, the song has found success in other countries as well, such as Ireland, New Zealand and France. In the Irish Singles Chart, the peaked at number 5. Agadoo spent a longer 11 weeks in the New Zealand Singles Chart, debuting at number 37 on 21 October 1984, the song fell out the chart quite abruptly, falling 25 places to number 44 in its final appearance in the chart before falling out completely. In the French Singles Chart, the peaked at number 48 in its first. The Australian satirical TV series CNNNN ran a fake cross-promotion for Agadoo, in 1986, the song was parodied in The Chicken Song by the satirical television programme Spitting Image. The tracks composer Philip Pope had previously parodied the song as Shagadoo in Radio Active, the song was also used as the basis of a chant by fans of Liverpool for defender Daniel Agger

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Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
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Against All Odds is a song by English drummer, singer and songwriter Phil Collins. It was recorded for the soundtrack to the 1984 film of the same name and it is a power ballad in which its protagonist implores an ex-lover to take a look at me now, knowing that reconciliation is against all odds while considering it worth trying. The single reached two in the United Kingdom, while it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song has been covered by singers, some versions of which have been successful in both the US and UK markets. Collins was approached to write the song to the film Against All Odds while it was still in its rough cut form. At the time the soundtrack was being completed, Collins was on tour with Genesis, director Taylor Hackford flew in to Chicago to see one of the bands concerts. Collins watched the movie on a recorder in his hotel room. Originally titled How Can You Just Sit There, the song was initially from the sessions for Collins debut solo album Face Value. Collins wrote the song, while arranger Arif Mardin produced it, the piano performance is by New York musician Rob Mounsey. Piano, keyboard bass and a string section arranged and conducted by Mardin were recorded at RCA Studios, New York, while Collins recorded vocals, according to Collins in a 1985 interview with Dan Neer, We recorded the song in two days. One day in New York, the other in Los Angeles, the mixes were done by phone and the song went to Number 1. On episode 339 of This American Life, Break Up, Collins relays that the song was inspired, in the interview he says that the divorce transformed him from being a musician into also being a lyricist. The song was first included on a Collins album on the 1998 compilation Hits, a live performance of the song also appears on the Serious Hits… Live. In 2015, Collins released the demo recording from the Face Value sessions as part of his Take A Look At Me Now project. Against All Odds was created explicitly for the movie, although it was based on an unreleased song Collins had written in 1981. Hackford, who used a song for the 1982 American drama film An Officer and a Gentleman, planned the same for the neo-noir 1984 film Against All Odds. When he signed with Atlantic Records, he was provided with a roster of artists, Hackford said that it was a textbook case of designing a song to reflect what the film is. The song appears in the movie as background music during the closing credits, writing for the soundtracks review, Allmusic editor Heather Phares claimed that the movie is best remembered for the inclusion of Collins classic theme song

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All Cried Out (Alison Moyet song)
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All Cried Out is a song by English singer-songwriter Alison Moyet. It was written by Moyet and producers Jolley & Swain for her studio album Alf. Released as the second single in the autumn of 1984. In 2002, it was re-recorded and released as a single by German pop band No Angels for their album When the Angels Swing. In the 6 October 1984 issue of Number One magazine, Paul Bursche reviewed the single and he commented, In no way am I the first to rave about this exquisite voice, nor, I suspect, shall I be the last. But I wouldnt let the voice distract me from the song, Alison Moyet not only has a great voice, shes also some songwriter. In 2002, All Cried Out was re-recorded in two versions by German pop band No Angels, while a re-worked version with a contemporary pop edge was included on the re-release edition of the groups second album Now. A re-arranged big band-played version was released on the bands first swing album, produced by Perky Park and Nik Hafemann respectively, both versions were released on a single CD single on 2 December 2002 in German-speaking Europe

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All I Need (Jack Wagner song)
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All I Need is a 1984 song by American actor and singer Jack Wagner. All I Need was written by Glen Ballard, David Pack and Clif Magness and produced by Ballard, the song proved to be Wagners only Top 40 hit, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1985. It remained at the position for two weeks, behind Madonnas Like a Virgin. The single did spend two weeks atop Billboards adult contemporary chart, the ballad is the title-track to Wagners 1984 debut album. The song is a plea from Wagner to the one he loves. In 2007, the song was covered by Filipino rock band Shamrock for the Filipino romantic comedy movie My Best Friends Girlfriend, in 2009, VH1 ranked All I Need No.71 on its program 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s. No official music video has created for this song, though there was a live performance of the song released in early of 1985. List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1985 Single release info at discogs. com Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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All Join Hands
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All Join Hands is a song by rock band Slade, released as the lead single from the 1985 album Rogues Gallery. The single was released in 1984 and became the bands third UK hit that year, peaking at #15, the single stayed in the top #30 for 7 weeks. The single was aimed at the Christmas market and had a power ballad to Slades previous 1983 hit My Oh My. It was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea and it became Slades last top #20 hit although their 1991 single Radio Wall of Sound would peak at #21. The photography of the cover was by Tony McConnell, the b-side Heres To. was originally an exclusive b-side before appearing as an album track on the 1985 album Crackers – The Christmas Party Album. The track was recorded at Angel Studios and produced by John Punter, another anthem with a nostalgic feel, featuring Jim on double tracked piano, it heralded Slades effective retirement from stage work. The song was replaced on the American version of Rogues Gallery by Slades 1982 hit Lock Up Your Daughters, some versions of the single featured an inside leaflet titled Read The Wordz which was a mail order form to get a copy of Slades biography titled Feel The Noize. On the other side of the leaflet, another order was present. The main text stated An exclusive offer for Christmas, the ideal Christmas present for those people who count, a limited edition of t-shirts with the All Join Hands single cover on the front in full colour and a Christmas message from the band on the back. In a December 1984 interview with Record Mirror, the magazine tested Leas memory by asking him to recall the story behind certain hits, for All Join Hands, Lea stated Its another anthem. I come up with these on my way down to the chip shop and it just popped into my head while I was walking down the street. I dont have to sit down at a piano or lock myself in a cottage somewhere, ive got all the tunes in my head but Nods my bounce, my partner. We could write over the phone by now, aside from the promotional video which featured John Otway, the track was mimed on numerous UK TV shows including Top of the Pops, Razamatazz and Saturday Superstore. On a certain Top of the Pops performance, Holder would wave two paper cut-out hands on sticks past half way into the performance, both Lea and Hill had paper cut-out hands stuck to their guitars. The band would perform the song in December 1984, on the show Thommys Pop Show, the band also performed the 1981 German only single Rock and Roll Preacher on the show as the first track, followed by All Join Hands. Another performance of the song was on an unknown German TV pop show in 1985, the video for this single was a Phillip Davey production at the Ewert Studios in London. The opening shots depict a 3 o’clock piano concerto in a posh hall watched by a seated audience of music lovers in dinner jackets. The doors to the hall are pushed open and in sways a slightly tipsy looking Holder, horror is shown on the faces of the audience

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All of You (Julio Iglesias and Diana Ross song)
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Richard Perry, the albums music producer, suggested the idea of Iglesias having Diana Ross as yet another duet partner, and Iglesias agreed. That would soon change as Ross reportedly ended up spending the Christmas holiday season at Iglesiass Miami estate and they there celebrated the success of their global duet that hit #1 in Spain, #3 in Italy, and #8 in Canada for example. In the United States, it reached #12 in Cash Box, additionally, All of You reached #2 on Adult Contemporary radio. Because it was the single from 1100 Bel Air Place. It also boasted a popular and sensual music video. Though her debut album for the label, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, had been three years before, her most recently released album, Ross, was not performing as well. Richard Perry served as music producer

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All or Nothing (Fiction Factory song)
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All or Nothing is a song from new wave band Fiction Factory, released in 1984 as the third and final single from the bands debut album, Throw the Warped Wheel Out. The song was written by Kevin Patterson, Eddie Jordan and Chic Medley and it was produced by Alan Rankine. After the early 1984 Top 10 UK hit with Heaven, the follow-up single Ghost of Love only managed to reach #64 in the UK, the band became labelled a one hit wonder, as their following releases managed to reach commercial success. All or Nothing was released to commercial failure, with little interest from record buyers and this was despite the song receiving acclaim from music journalists as a stand-out track from the bands debut album. The song was released with limited promotion, with the not having a music video. The single was released via 7 and 12 vinyl in the UK, a 7 single was also issued in the Netherlands. All releases were through CBS Records, who distributed the release. A promotional 7 vinyl was released in the UK as well, the 7 vinyl featured the exclusive non-album B-Side Dreaming of Someone - a song written by Patterson and Jordan, and produced by Fiction Factory. The 12 vinyl release featured an Extended Version of All or Nothing, along with Dreaming of Someone and another exclusive and this song was also written by Patterson and Jordan, and produced by Fiction Factory. Peter Wilson, who produced the majority of the debut album. The single featured a full colour sleeve, featuring similar artwork as the debut album - a close up of Patterson in silhouette. The photography was taken by David McIntyre in his own parents garden, the effect was achieved by McIntyre drawing Pattersons outline on a piece of cardboard. A couple of days later they took a camera, the exposure. The cardboard piece was positioned close to the tree, and then McIntyre did the part of the exposure while walking about with a torch doing all the lights off Patterson. I Who Know You would also appear on the compilation

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All Through the Night (Cyndi Lauper song)
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All Through the Night is a song by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released from her debut album Shes So Unusual. It was written by Jules Shear for his album Watch Dog, after The Cars recorded their own version, which they did not use on any of their albums, Lauper decided to cover it. Although she initially intended to do a cover of Shears version. The song was the single released worldwide by Lauper that did not have a music video. The song was positively received by critics. An acoustic version was sung by Lauper on her 2005 album, in this version, Shaggy provided backing vocals. The song was written by Jules Shear, and included on his 1983 debut solo album. Shear later recalled in an interview, like a big bonus really, Cyndi Lauper does a song thats on a solo record of mine. I just thought, No ones really going to hear this, then she does it, and it becomes a Top 5 song. Im just glad people know the songs, really, the only problem is with people who dont know I wrote them. I do them and they think, God, hes doing that Cyndi Lauper song, before Lauper covered the song, the band The Cars produced an early version of it that was not released. Shears version was originally a song, but Lauper instead turned it into a pop ballad for her album. According to Lauper, she wanted it to be just like Shears version, however, she changed her mind, saying that she wanted to sing it like herself. Unlike her other singles from the album, this one did not have a video released with it. Shears original version of All Through the Night is set in the key of F major, for her cover version, Lauper transposed the key up a minor third to A-flat major, and kept the tempo at the same 96 beats per minute as the original. The song is set in common time, Laupers voice spans an octave and a fourth between G3 and D♭5. Jules Shear himself makes a guest appearance on Laupers version, singing a wordless falsetto melody near the end, the chorus was unintentionally altered by Lauper from the Shear version when she heard the upper harmony vocal and thought it was the lead vocal. Lyrically, All Through the Night addresses the concept of love and its tug at heart-strings as was emphasized by Laupers previous single

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Almost Paradise
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Love Theme from Footloose is the title of a duet by singers Mike Reno of Loverboy and Hearts frontwoman Ann Wilson. It is one of two hits with music by singer Eric Carmen and lyrics by Dean Pitchford, the other being Carmens hit. Reno is best known as the singer of the rock band Loverboy. Both bands achieved a significant amount of success in the 1980s, an alternate version of the song with a slightly different musical arrangement, which has never been released, is used in the film. The other hits from this soundtrack include Footloose by Kenny Loggins and Lets Hear It for the Boy by Deniece Williams, almost Paradise was also a hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in the United States, where it spent one week at No.1. Both singers resumed their roles within their bands following this one-off recording. In 1989 Eric Carmen and Merry Clayton released a cover single, in 2011, Victoria Justice and Hunter Hayes performed the song, for the 2011 remake of the original film. Gloriana performed the song for the edition of the 2011 soundtrack. In 2014, Eric Benét and Ailee covered the song, featured on Benéts album, From E to U, the song was covered by Filipino singers Jay-R and Iya Villania. This song is also the song for critically acclaimed TV series Bachelor in Paradise hosted by Chris Harrison. com

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America (Waylon Jennings song)
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America is a song written by Sammy Johns and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It was released in September 1984 as the first new single from the album Waylons Greatest Hits, the song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The music video was directed by David Hogan and premiered in September 1984 and it features scenes from all across the United States. Scenes also feature Waylon Jennings singing the song outside of a store at a gas station with the American flag on it

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Un amour pour moi
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Un amour pour moi is the third single from Celine Dions album Mélanie. It was released in 1984 in Quebec, Canada, the B-side included another album track called Comme on disait avant. It was also featured on Dions album Les oiseaux du bonheur, canadian 7 single Un amour pour moi –4,23 Comme on disait avant –3,35

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Angel in Disguise (Earl Thomas Conley song)
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Angel in Disguise is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in April 1984 as the fourth and final single from the album Dont Make It Easy for Me, the song was Earl Thomas Conleys sixth number one country single. The single went to one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. The video was aired on The Nashville Network, CMT and Great American Country, a video was also filmed for the singles B-side Crowd Around the Corner. The video depicts a man sneaking out of a retirement home to enjoy one last glimpse of life before dying. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Assassing
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Assassing is a song by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion. It was the single from their second studio album, Fugazi. The single reached no.22 on the UK singles charts in May 1984, the 7 singles title track is a heavily edited version of the first track on Fugazi, with a length of 03,39 as opposed to the album version with 07,01. The B-side is the non-album track Cinderella Search, the lyrics of the song, which feature a narrator-character describing himself as an assassin, appear to concern character assassination. The lyrics are full of metaphors alluding to verbal fighting, for example, the lyrics are generally interpreted as a reference to the verbal arguments that preceded band founder and drummer Mick Pointers departure from the band. The international 12 version contains both the album version and the edited version of the title track, the latter is missing from the UK release. The b-side also appears in a longer version. As with all Marillion albums and singles of the Fish period, a CD replica of the single was also part of a collectors box-set released in July 2000 which contained Marillions first twelve singles and was re-issued as a 3-CD set in 2009

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Assassino
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Assassino – a song by French singer Amanda Lear released in 1984 by WEA. In 1984 Amanda Lear signed with WEA Italiana for the release of a single-only song Assassino and this uptempo dance track was written by Amanda Lear and three Italian composers, Cristiano Malgioglio, Mauro Lusini, and Luigi Lopez. It was recorded in Italian and English, both versions having the same title, the Italian-language version was released on the 7 single, with Stato dallarme as the B-side, another non-album Italian song. Assassino in English exists only as the 12 extended mix, the song gained considerable popularity in Europe although it didnt chart. The music video was directed by Italian director Mauro Bolognini and it contains scenes with Amanda Lear topless. The English version of the song was used in the video,7 Single A. Assassino –4,05 B. Stato dallarme –3,5512 Single A. Assassino –6,02 B

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Automatic (Pointer Sisters song)
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Automatic is a song by American vocal group The Pointer Sisters, released by the Planet label in January 13,1984 as the second single from their tenth studio album Break Out. Automatic reached position number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, eventually, three other singles from Break Out reached the top-ten on the Hot 100 consecutively. We all sat up straight when we first heard and told Richard we wanted to include it on the album. Okay, he said But who would sing the low part, I said, Ill do the low part. As the second release from Break Out, although Jump. would become the most successful US single off Break Out when it became the albums third single. In the British Isles, Automatic would afford the Pointer Sisters their all-time biggest hit, Automatic also afforded the Pointer Sisters Top-Ten success in Belgium, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, in Australia Automatic reached a chart peak of #15. Her version topped the US dance chart, hitting one in the issue dated April 28,2007. This version appeared briefly in a scene of Looking, The Movie in 2016. The music video for Automatic was directed by Karl Giant, ultra Naté is later shown wearing a rhinestone-studded liquid Lycra while two men, apparently nude, watch her on their computers. In 1987, Automatic is featured in the reunion film The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man. In 1991, the song was featured in the film Ricochet, the song Automatic was featured on the soundtrack of the popular 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. In 2006, Belgian singer Afi covered Automatic and her version became a minor hit in Belgium, where it reached top twenty on the Flanders Ultratip chart. In 2008, Automatic was covered by UK rock supergroup Hot Leg on their Ive Met Jesus EP, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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Axel F
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Axel F is the electronic instrumental theme from the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop performed by Harold Faltermeyer. It was an international number 1 hit in 1985, the title comes from the main characters name, Axel Foley, in the film. In addition to the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, the song appears on Faltermeyers 1988 album Harold F. as a bonus track. Reportedly, Faltermeyer was against including it, but MCA insisted as it was his most recognizable track and it also spent two weeks atop the American adult contemporary chart. In 2005, Crazy Frog recorded the song, releasing it as Axel F, the novelty song is Crazy Frogs first and most internationally successful single. Arranged the remix, and later marketed it as a ringtone, the song consists of vocals taken from the Crazy Frog recording by Daniel Malmedahl in 1997. It uses mainly the same part of the original that was used in Jamsters ringtone release. The song also uses the Whats going on, vocal shotguns from another 2003 cover of Axel F, by Murphy Brown and Captain Hollywood. The video, featuring the Crazy Frog character, is set in the future, the bounty hunter receives notification of a $50,000 reward for capturing the frog. There were three edits to the song, the original version of the song can be found at most peer to peer networks. This song used the Whats going on, shotguns twice throughout the song and the weeee. Sound is heard before the section of the song. A radio edit was made which had the frog saying This is the Crazy Frog. and the removal of some sounds and it also reached number 1 in the overall European chart, after initially being number 2 to Akons Lonely for several weeks, and stayed there until September. It also reached number 1 in Australia, Republic of Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, France, New Zealand, Norway, Ukraine, Spain, and Sweden. In France, the made a amazing jump, entering the French Singles Chart at number seventy seven on June 11,2005. There it stayed for two weeks before climbing to the summit, where it remained for thirteen weeks and it fell off the first position being dethroned by its 2nd single, Popcorn. The song remained in the top 10 for 21 weeks,30 weeks in the top 50 and 36 weeks in the chart and its best weekly sales were 103,564 on its 6th week. On December 1,2005, it was certified Diamond disc 7 months after its release by SNEP, the song is the third best-selling single of the 21st century in France, with 1,270,000 units sold